fear
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
7 views from Abraham Maslow
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
7 other quotes from Corrie Ten Boom
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
16 thoughts from David Hume
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
18 thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
8 quotes from Thomas Hobbes
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
4 other sayings from David Brainerd
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
In time we hate that which we often fear.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
18 thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
3 views from Madame de Stael
Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
4 other thoughts from Marvin Gaye
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
20 sayings from Anatole France
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
6 more quotes from Emile Zola
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
14 more wisdom & wit from Clarence Darrow
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
42 sayings from Josh Billings
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
81 sayings from William Shakespeare
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
9 sayings from Jiddu Krishnamurti
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
26 more quotes from Harry S. Truman
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
45 views from Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
3 other views from Miles Davis
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
45 more views from Bertrand Russell
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
4 views from Gregory Bateson
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
135 more views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is always a good motivator.
22 quotes from James Dyson
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
45 more thoughts from Bertrand Russell
Fear is the passion of slaves.
10 wisdom & wit from Patrick Henry
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
9 more wisdom & wit from John Cheever
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
43 other wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
11 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
4 sayings from Florence Nightingale
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
3 quotes from Jacqueline Cochran
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
3 more wisdom & wit from May Sarton
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
7 thoughts from Max Frisch
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
6 quotes from Francis Quarles
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
46 sayings from John F. Kennedy
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
14 views from Joseph Joubert
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
24 wisdom & wit from James A. Baldwin
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
22 sayings from Robert Browning
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
23 sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli
My greatest fear: repetition.
7 more thoughts from Max Frisch
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
6 more thoughts from Francis Quarles
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
45 views from Bertrand Russell
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
13 views from Fred Allen
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
9 quotes from Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
24 quotes from Joseph Addison
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley
Those who own much have much to fear.
35 wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
11 sayings from Horace Mann
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
14 quotes from Jean Anouilh
Fear clogs faith liberates.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
53 more sayings from Marilyn Monroe
Fear is the mother of foresight.
14 quotes from Thomas Hardy
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
59 more wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
53 other wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
15 quotes from Pierre Corneille
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
3 thoughts from Robert Falcon Scott
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
21 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
4 other quotes from Mary McCarthy
The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.
8 quotes from Stokely Carmichael
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
59 more thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
4 thoughts from Ben Jonson
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
14 quotes from Jean Anouilh
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
2 other quotes from Charles Frohman
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
15 views from Jean de La Fontaine
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
13 views from Dag Hammarskjold
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
16 quotes from Douglas Horton
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
27 thoughts from Dave Barry
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
8 quotes from Mary Baker Eddy
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
15 sayings from Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
15 other views from Jean de La Fontaine
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
12 wisdom & wit from Julius Caesar
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
3 more quotes from John Paul Jones
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
12 more quotes from Julius Caesar
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
14 thoughts from Edward Young
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
12 more sayings from Franz Kafka
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
3 other quotes from Dorothy Thompson
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
31 more views from Eric Hoffer
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
6 more sayings from Elias Canetti
The strongest passion is fear.
15 wisdom & wit from Jean de La Fontaine
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
17 views from John Dryden
Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
17 thoughts from John Dryden
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
4 wisdom & wit from Peter McWilliams
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
19 other thoughts from Percy Bysshe Shelley
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
17 more thoughts from John Dryden
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
6 more wisdom & wit from H. P. Lovecraft
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
24 other quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
2 more quotes from John Hawkes
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
16 sayings from Samuel Goldwyn
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
3 quotes from Maggie Kuhn
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
24 other views from Lyndon B. Johnson
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
26 more views from Jean de la Bruyere
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
10 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
4 thoughts from Peter McWilliams
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
26 other thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
4 wisdom & wit from Roald Dahl
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
15 more thoughts from Cyril Connolly
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
4 sayings from Arthur Koestler
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
21 other quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
9 more quotes from Elizabeth I
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
15 quotes from Cyril Connolly
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
15 sayings from Cyril Connolly
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
23 more views from T. S. Eliot
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
2 thoughts from Elinor Wylie
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
90 views from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
15 wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
15 other quotes from Cyril Connolly
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
2 other quotes from David Ben-Gurion
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
4 wisdom & wit from Aleister Crowley
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
18 other quotes from John Adams
Fear is the mother of morality.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
33 other sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
7 wisdom & wit from Matthew Henry
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
2 sayings from Ivo Andric
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
15 more views from Desiderius Erasmus
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
8 other thoughts from W. Edwards Deming
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
21 other quotes from Dale Carnegie
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
11 quotes from Henry Van Dyke
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
20 more quotes from George S. Patton
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
98 views from Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
21 other quotes from Dale Carnegie
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
18 other quotes from Baruch Spinoza
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
21 views from Dale Carnegie
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
78 more views from Voltaire
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
21 quotes from Dale Carnegie
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
14 quotes from Hedy Lamarr
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
11 thoughts from Bruce Lee
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
32 other quotes from Martin Luther
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
21 wisdom & wit from Dale Carnegie
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
8 wisdom & wit from William Shenstone
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
4 other quotes from Dorothy Day
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
25 views from C. S. Lewis
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
4 more views from Marie Curie
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
52 other sayings from Albert Camus
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
10 thoughts from Fyodor Dostoevsky
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
98 more thoughts from Mark Twain
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
52 quotes from George Eliot
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
78 quotes from Voltaire
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
3 other quotes from James K. Polk
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
52 views from George Eliot
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
22 views from Andre Gide
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
20 quotes from George S. Patton
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
18 more sayings from Baruch Spinoza
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
11 more views from Jawaharlal Nehru
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
12 thoughts from James Allen
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
14 other quotes from Wendell Phillips
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
14 thoughts from James Thurber
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
4 other thoughts from Morihei Ueshiba
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
14 quotes from Jim Morrison
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
5 other wisdom & wit from Anwar Sadat
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
75 more views from Benjamin Disraeli
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
2 wisdom & wit from James Lane Allen
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
14 other thoughts from Joseph Conrad
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
12 sayings from George MacDonald
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
7 quotes from Edvard Munch
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
3 sayings from Clara Barton
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Let us banish fear.
6 quotes from Carter G. Woodson
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
14 sayings from James Thurber
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
7 thoughts from William E. Gladstone
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
9 more views from Rainer Maria Rilke
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
2 other quotes from Julien Benda
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
14 quotes from Joseph Conrad
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
14 more quotes from Jim Morrison
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
2 views from Alfred Eisenstaedt
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
17 more quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
14 views from Jim Morrison
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
13 other sayings from Chanakya
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
21 views from Abu Bakr
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
17 other quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
56 sayings from Khalil Gibran
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
19 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
14 more quotes from Stendhal
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
13 quotes from Chanakya
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
17 other thoughts from Plutarch
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
45 sayings from Thomas Fuller
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
96 more sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
10 thoughts from William Congreve
Fear is excitement without breath.
2 views from Robert Heller
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
75 other sayings from Aristotle
Fear is the foundation of safety.
10 thoughts from Tertullian
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
12 other quotes from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
God helps those who fear Him.
21 quotes from Abu Bakr
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
12 quotes from Zora Neale Hurston
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
5 more sayings from Pliny the Elder
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
16 more thoughts from Isaac Asimov
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
4 sayings from Saadi
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
3 quotes from Pierre Beaumarchais
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
75 other sayings from Aristotle
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
14 views from Charles de Montesquieu
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
4 sayings from Jackson Pollock
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
11 other quotes from Epicurus
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
2 more quotes from Giordano Bruno
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
3 other sayings from Francis Beaumont
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
36 other quotes from Lord Byron
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
56 other views from Khalil Gibran
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
75 sayings from Aristotle
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
10 views from Tertullian
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
5 more quotes from Christopher Columbus
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
11 other thoughts from Douglas MacArthur
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
67 other thoughts from Francis Bacon
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
45 other sayings from Thomas Fuller
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
6 more sayings from William Lyon Phelps
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
21 sayings from Abu Bakr
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
24 more quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
19 quotes from Anton Chekhov
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
21 sayings from Abu Bakr
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
14 more wisdom & wit from Charles de Montesquieu
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
7 more sayings from Homer
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
6 more wisdom & wit from Babe Ruth
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
3 other thoughts from Marian Anderson
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
7 thoughts from Nikos Kazantzakis
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
11 wisdom & wit from James Joyce
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
7 thoughts from Nikos Kazantzakis
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
4 other quotes from James A. Michener
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
7 sayings from Georges Bernanos
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
6 quotes from Huey Newton
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
6 quotes from Babe Ruth
People living deeply have no fear of death.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
9 wisdom & wit from John Steinbeck
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
31 views from Thomas Paine
The thing I fear most is fear.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
32 other thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
6 quotes from Huey Newton
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
13 thoughts from Francois Rabelais
Fear God and work hard.
3 views from David Livingstone
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
9 sayings from Andrew Jackson
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
50 other thoughts from Robert Frost
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
2 wisdom & wit from Olive Schreiner
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
105 more sayings from Albert Einstein
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
5 more quotes from William Jennings Bryan